Base for filing-cabinets and the like.



O. E. WILSON.

BASE FOR FILING CABINETS AND THE LIKE.

APPLICATION FILED APR. 22, 1912.

1,080,874. Patented Dec. 9, 1913.

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BASE FOB. FILING CABINETS AND THE LIKE.

APPLIGATION FILED APR. 22, 1912.

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CHARLES E. WILSON, OF MUSKEGON, MICHIGAN, ASSIGITOR TO THE SHAW-WALKER COMPANY, OF MUSKEGON, MICHIGAN, A CORPOBATIGN OF MICHIGAN.

BASE FOB FILING-CABINETS AND THE LIKE.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that 1, CHARLES E. WILSON, a citizen of the United States, residing at Muskegon, in the county of Muskegon and State of Michigan, have invented new and useful Improvements in Bases for Filing- Cabinets and the like, of which the following is a specification.

My present invention relates to bases for filing cabinets, and the like, and its object is to provide an improved base of that character, which will be readily adjustable to cabinets of difierent sizes and which will be extensible to support a varying number of such cabinets. This object is attained by, and my invention is preferably embodied in, the base hereinafter described, illustrated by the accompanying drawings, in which:

Figure 1 is a view in perspective of said base; Fig. 2 is a bottom plan view of the same; Fig. 3 is a top plan view of a supplementary body member thereof, etc.; Fig, 4c is a view in perspective of one of the connecting bars; Fig. 5 is a like view of one of the cabinet-holding stops; Fig. 6 is a like view of a cabinet supported on said base; Fig. 7 is a like view, enlarged, of a portion of the same, and Fig. 8 is a like view of two cabinets supported on said base, certain parts in said last three views being broken away.

The base has two body members, 1, 2, each provided with two legs 3, and adapted to be securely held by suitable means at varying distances apart, in order to accommodate cabinets, etc., of different widths. Such means for holding the body-members in desired relative adjustment preferably comprises a pair of metal connecting bars 4;, each slotted longitudinally toward both ends, as at 5, through which slots bolts 6 carried by the body member are adapted to freely pass. Ting nuts 7 are threaded on these bolts and are adapted to engage the connecting bars to clamp them to the body members, and thus secure the proper ad- Specification of Letters Eatent.

Application filed April 22, 1912.

FatentedDc-c. 9, 1913.

Serial No. 692,431.

justment of such members relatively to each other. When it is desired to support two cabinets 8 on the base, as shown in Fig. 8, a supplementary body member 9" having connecting bars and in all respects similar to one of the body members 1, 2, is added to the base, by loosening the nuts on body member 2 and inserting the bolts of said member into the outward slots of the connecting bars carried by the supplementary body member 9, and after adjusting the three body members 1, 2 and 9, so that the middle legs 10 (Fig. 8) are directly below the meeting line of the two cabinets, the nuts are tightened, the nuts of the body member 2 clamping the connecting bars extending to both the body members 1 and 9. Suitable stops 11 carried by the body members are adapted to abuttingly engage the inner edges of the stiles 12, as shown in Figs. 6, 7 and 8, to hold the cabinets against forward or backward movement. To accommodate stiles of different thickness in the direct-ion of the front and back of the cabinet, the stops may be pivoted eccentrically on the body members, as at 13, so as to be turned to present the short or the long arm for engagement with the stiles.

VJ here two cabinets are to be joined as in Fig. 8, the adjacent side pieces 14 are removed by loosening the screws 15, and the cabinets are then connected as by screws 16 in the stiles 17.

Not confining myself to the details of construction shown and described, I claim:

1. In a device of the character described, three body members each provided with legs, two of said members having each a bar connected thereto provided with a longitudinal slot, and the third said member being arranged between said other members and having a threaded bolt adapted to move in the slots and provided with a nut adapted to clamp the bars to the said third member, to adjustably connect the said members at a desired distance apart.

2. In a device of the character described,

three body members, two of said members In testimony whereof I have hereunto set having each a laterally-extending bar, and my hand in presence of two subscribing the third body member being arranged bewitnesses.

tween said other members and having means CHARLES E. WILSON. 5 for clamping both the bars to said third Witnesses:

body member, to adjustably connect the said CHAS. M. WILsON,

members at a desired distance apart. GYRUs WV. RICE.

Copies 0; this patent may be obtained for five cents each, by addressing the ()omm issjoner of Patents, Washington, D. O. 

